Malabar Style Dates Pickle Recipe

Name: Malabar Style Dates Pickle Recipe
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Malabar
Ingredients: 250 grams Dates pitted and roughly chopped; 1 tablespoon Ginger paste; 1 tablespoon Garlic paste; 4 null Green Chillies finely chopped; 1/4 teaspoon Turmeric powder (Haldi); 1 tablespoon Red Chilli powder; 3 tablespoons Vinegar; 1 teaspoon Mustard seeds (Rai/ Kadugu); 1/4 teaspoon Asafoetida (hing); 1 tablespoon Sugar; 2 tablespoons Oil; 1 sprig Curry leaves; null Salt to taste

Nithya Anantham

June 12, 2018

21882 Ratings

Time:Prep: 10 M|Cook: 10 M|Total: 20 M

Makes:4 Servings

Meal:Side Dish

Cuisine:Malabar

Malabar Style Dates Pickle Recipe is a popular pickle recipe from the Malabar region of Kerala. Dates, are usually associated with desserts or eaten raw. But, here we have prepared a delightful pickle out of it. It is an instant pickle recipe, which gets cooked in 10 minutes. It is sweet, spicy and tangy bursting with flavours all at the same time. It pairs very well with the traditionally cooked Thalassery Biryani.

Serve the Malabar Style Dates Pickle Recipe along with Parathas for breakfast or with Vegetable Biryani and Papadam for a weekend lunch.

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Serve the Malabar Style Dates Pickle Recipe along with Parathas for breakfast or with Vegetable Biryani and Papadam for a weekend lunch.

If you like this recipe, you can also try other Pickle recipes such as

Ingredients

250 grams Dates, pitted and roughly chopped

1 tablespoon Ginger, paste

1 tablespoon Garlic, paste

4 Green Chillies, finely chopped

1/4 teaspoon Turmeric powder (Haldi)

1 tablespoon Red Chilli powder

3 tablespoons Vinegar

1 teaspoon Mustard seeds (Rai/ Kadugu)

1/4 teaspoon Asafoetida (hing)

1 tablespoon Sugar

2 tablespoons Oil

1 sprig Curry leaves

Salt, to taste

Instructions for Malabar Style Dates Pickle Recipe

To begin making the Malabar Style Dates Pickle Recipe, remove the seeds from the dates, roughly chop them and keep aside.

Heat oil in a wide pan, add the mustard seeds, allow to splutter and then add asafoetida, curry leaves and let the curry leaves splutter.

Add the ginger, garlic pastes and green chilli. Saute till the raw smell goes away. Add the turmeric, red chilli powder and mix well.

Add the chopped dates, and cook until the dates become soft. Season this with salt, sugar and saute for another minute or till the seasoning merges with the recipe.

Add the vinegar and simmer until the pickles comes together and then switch off the heat.

Serve the Malabar Style Dates Pickle Recipe along with Parathas for breakfast or with Vegetable Biryani and Papadam for a weekend lunch.